
Centropa Ebook: Jakub Bromberg
My family came from Bodzentyn [139 km from Lodz], in the Swietokrzyskie Mountains. Bodzentyn was a very small town. There were several hundred Jews living there [approx. 1,000 Jews, about two percent of the total population]. Artisans, merchants - the entire downtown was Jewish. Jews and Poles lived together in the city and the relationships between them were very good. There were more Poles...
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Centropa eBook: Venezia Kamhi

Centropa Ebook: Chava Pressburger

Centropa Ebook: Franziska Smolka

Centropa eBook: Kurt Kotouc
Kurt Kotouc lives in a small apartment in Prague, in a pleasant neighborhood close to the city centre. Mr Kotouc is a very elegant and friendly gentleman who comes across as calm and well-read. We did the interview in a room where one wall was covered in books; the focus of many of the volumes was visual art.

Centropa eBook: Rachel Randvee

Centropa eBook: Lily Arouch

Centropa Ebook: Ilona Seifert
My grandfather, Bernáat Riemer was born in ÓObuda. He studied bakery as an apprentice and then became a baker's journeyman. He worked diligently, and later bought the bakery where he had worked.

Centropa eBook: Ilona Seifert
My grandfather, Bernáat Riemer was born in Obuda. He studied bakery as an apprentice and then became a baker's journeyman. He worked diligently, and later bought the bakery where he had worked. Next to the bakery there was a shop where different kinds of breads, baker's wares, and all kinds of other foodstuffs were sold. They made challah too.

Centropa eBook: Lily Arouch
"Lily Arouch, 77, has beautiful light blue eyes and wears glasses. She lives in a big apartment in the suburbs of Athens. Since September 2005 she shares her apartment with her granddaughter Yvon, who has moved from Thessalonica to Athens due to her studies. In the same apartment block lives her older daughter's family.